Educational Qualification: The employee is more interested in the candidates’ skillset for the job, than the qualifications. However, a University degree in the sciences or any of the following or related fields is desirable: statistics and epidemiology, natural, medical or social sciences.

Years of Experience: Minimum of one year working experience

Other Requirements:

Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation practices, methods, tools and guidelines

Basic data management and analysis skills

Must have the basic skills to obtain, analyze, organize and interpret data and present findings in both oral and written form

Proficiency in spoken and written English

Team player with ability to work with minimum supervision

Be willing to undertake regular field visits and interact with different stakeholders, especially primary stakeholders

Flexibility, willing to travel and work weekends

Experience with data collection and data management

Proficiency in Microsoft Office especially Excel and Access

Ability to run basic analysis using Microsoft Excel. Ability to use statistical packages (e.g. STATA, SAS, SPSS) and Microsoft packages (particularly Access) is an added advantage

S/he will report to the NAHSS Program Manager and shall work in collaboration with other NAHSS staff to carry out NigeriaQual activities.

S/he will also ensure data quality and best practices in data collection, data management, and data reporting at different levels, promote health system strengthening activities, communicate with implementing partners and state ministries of health on all NigeriaQual data related activities, and collate all required data from all stakeholders for USG reporting.

The HMIS officer will coordinate the implementation of Strategic Information activities related to the NAHSS project, monitor and evaluate NigeriaQual indicators to assure validity and consistency and also ensure that program targets are met, generate and share indicator status reports with all partners as required.

job requirements include collaborating with the Government of Nigeria agencies to conduct monitoring, evaluation and supervisory activities as required in the NigeriaQual program and providing comprehensive data support for all research activities which includes: database creation and management, data collation, data monitoring and analysis.

Receive and collate data and indicator reports from the sites, Implementing Partners, states, LGAs and other relevant stakeholders

Facilitate trainings for facilities, states, Local Government Areas (LGA) and Implementing Partner staff on the NigeriaQual program and the NigeriaQual software in all NAHSS focus states

Coordinate communications between NAHSS and all IPs, states and LGAs on all NigeriaQual data related activities such as sharing timelines on activities, registration of facilities participating in every round of data collection exercise, monitoring data upload status, generation of all required reports after each exercise etc.

Prepare the indicator reports section of the semi‐annual and annual progress reports of the NAHSS project and other data related narratives or adhoc reports required for submission to funding agency CDC

Generate regular gap analysis to show progress towards achieving set targets for the NAHSS project and the NigeriaQual program

Participate in mentoring and supervision to implementing sites during the NigeriaQual performance exercise

Coordinate communications between NAHSS and the NigeriaQual software developer to ensure the experience of users at all level are continually satisfactory in the area of data entry, data uploads and generation of indicator reports

Ensure the optimal functionality of the software and managing the interpretation of Structured Query Language (SQL) used in software for data analysis to ensure the validity of indicators generated

Participate in periodic planning and strategic meetings with stakeholders/funding agencies (Federal Ministry of Health, Centers for Diseases Control‐CDC, and University of Maryland Baltimore etc.) to develop work plans and set pace guiding project activities

Perform other duties as assigned by the Project Director or Program Manager

Apply Before: 12th July, 2016.

How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application letter and detailed curriculum vitae in Microsoft word format should be forwarded to the. Associate Director, Human Resources through this email address: [email protected] Candidates should indicate appropriate positions and preferred locations in their application letter